In this article about California's budget mess, California's finance director claims he looked for a way to secede.
"I looked as hard as I could at how states could declare bankruptcy," said Michael Genest, director of the California Department of Finance who is stepping down at the end of the year. "I literally looked at the federal constitution to see if there was a way for states to return to territory status."
While it is unclear how leaving the USA would help California's budget mess, history is clear about what happened when states tried to secede. Remember the Civil War (sometimes known as the War Against Southern Independence)?
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